Week 9 - Heart of Christmas

Welcome to Week 9 of the Heart o Christmas Blog Hop for 2021. We are at the end of another month

I don't know about you but have you been watching the Paralympics? Aren't they exciting to watch! Well today while I was watching the amazingly fit, I could never do that athletes I did a little bit of fussy cutting and a bit of Christmas DSP putting together for you to give you a bit of an idea of what you can do if you have little bits of extra Designer Series paper left over from a project.

So if you have been following along for a bit you would know that I have been using the Tidings of Christmas DSP. This is where I started my inspiration for my cards today.

I used the colours to start me on my journey into my stack of cards.

So the colours that are used in this particular DSP is Cherry Cobbler, Evening Evergreen, Misty Moonlight, Sahara Sand and Soft Succulent. I started there with my card base and the Sahara Sand side of the DSP for the neutral base then with some off cuts strips I created the card base. Each card having their own colour as a layer of each of the thin strips in the centre of the card. Once I had done this then I went looking for my sentiment.

One of my favourite bundles in the Stampin' Up annual catalogue is the Inspired Thoughts Bundle that comes with this gorgeous sentiment stamp set and the Inspiring Canopy Dies. Well it just happens to have this Christmas stamp in amongst the sentiments and I went perfect for my card today!

Each sentiment is stamped in the corresponding colour. Then I took out my punches. Punches are quick and these cards were quick to make.

For the sentiment itself I first punched out the greeting with the Everyday Label Punch and then shortened each end with the punch to be closer to the words.

The punch under each sentiment is the Label Me Lovely and I have punch that out in each corresponding colour and trimmed back one little edge at the top and bottom of the sentiment. By doing this it made these sentiments so quick and easy to do and layer.

Under each sentiment is the gorgeous Fine Art Ribbon which has that beautiful fine gold thread through it to just give each card a bit of bling. Now to finish off each card comes my little bit of Fussy cutting that you can do with extra little bits of DSP that you have. I chose the Sweet Stocking DSP, It is a little cute don't you think?

I hope this gives you a little bit of an idea of what to do with some left over pieces of designer series paper. The DSP is gorgeous no matter what packet you have, show it off!

 

If you have any questions about today's project please do not hesitate to contact me.

Each week I look forward to seeing what each creative Art With Heart team member brings to our hops and Theresa Gerrard is no exception. Last week Theresa brought us the gorgeous Whimsical Trees in the lovely colours of Soft Succulent, Evening Evergreen and Polished pink with lots of beautiful texture I can't wait to see what she has to share with us this week. Just hit the next button to head there now!

If at any time the next blog buttons don't work just come back here as I have the privilege to host this weeks Heart of Christmas Blog Hop and below is the list of participants. You can click on the names and you continue you blog hop from there.

Kate Morgan
Andrea Sargent
Tina Gillespie
Rachel Woollard
Christine Blain
Sharon Davern  <=You are here
Theresa Gerrard
Michele Taylor
Ros Davidson
Rosa Leyden
Caroline Manwaring
Judy May
Catherine Proctor

Week 1 - Colour Creations Blog Hop - "The 5 -2021-2023 In Colors"

Welcome to the New Colour Creations Blog Hop for 2021-22. How exciting that we are continuing with the sharing of the gorgeous colours of Stampin' Up! each week with you.

We are going to be doing it as a blog hop where you click on the next button at the end of each post and it will take you to the next person on the list who is participating in the Colour Creation challenge that day but if the link is broken just come back and click on their name in the list provided and you will be able to get to their blog that way as well.

I am so excited to be continuing so let's get into Week 1!

For week 1 we are going to look at all 5 of the new In Colors!

Polished Pink, Pale Papaya, Evening Evergreen, Soft Succulent and Fresh Freesia! All gorgeous colours and I am going to have fun playing with these over the next 2 years.

So it is my it is my Dad's 80th Birthday today and I wanted to make him a card. At the moment he is not able to move around very well as he is on crutches for a leg injury so I thought the stamp set A Cut Above would be perfect for him. Take a load off, put your feet up and have a bit of a relax Dad! The challenge was how to incorporate all 5 In Colors into 1 card. 

Well bring on the Stampin' blends and some of the gorgeous Loose Flower Flourishes that are in 3 of the In Colors and there you have it. All 5 In Colors in 1 card!

So for this card I have used the Soft Succulent card base and cut an extra layer of Soft Succulent which I have stamped the cloud from the "A Cut Above" stamp set in Soft Succulent. I have also stamped the Happy Birthday onto Soft Succulent in Evening Evergreen and cut it out with the Stitched Rectangle dies.

Now for the main event our fun loving relaxed Dad/Grandad in my case!

Ok so as we were on the In Color challenge I went for it and the trees are also an In Color. The trunk is Cinnamon Cider in both light and dark blends. The leaves I have used both Soft Succulent and Evening evergreen as well as I have used them for the grass. Now you can see the Loose Flower Flourishes in Pale Papaya, Fresh Freesia and Polished Pink. I was away on the weekend (before our lock down) when I made this card and I permanently borrowed the flowers from a friend who had them as I had not purchased them yet but I am going to as they are just so gorgeous!

Now the shirt is Pale Papaya as well and his pillow is Soft Succulent and to round off all things In Color the sun is Bumblebee. He was fun to colour.

I don't know about you but I could do with a bit of sun and relaxing right now but I am sure my Dad will love his card and he does love a peachy looking shirt so I think he will like Pale Papaya.

Now as I had already met the challenge of putting all 5 new In Colors on one card I played around with them a bit more and made 3 other cards but Soft Succulent missed out this time.

I really loved this new Quiet Meadow Bundle when I saw it and I thought it was perfect for this simple card to show off these gorgeous new In Colours.

So for these set of cards I have them on a card base of Thick Basic White and then a mat layer of Regular Basic White which I have stamped the speckle stamp from the Quiet Meadow stamp set in Evening Evergreen in the background.

For each of the cards I have used the Meadow dies from the Quiet Meadows Bundle to cut out some of the flower and greenery sprigs in gold foil and vellum card stock.

To bring in the pop of colour each flower has been coloured with the Stampin' Blends in the new In Colors in Polished Pink, Pale Papaya and Fresh Freesia and the centre of the flower in Soft Suede light and dark. Under each flower which I fussy cut and popped up on dimensionals, the new In Color open weave ribbon has been adhered. The sentiment is also from the Quiet Meadow stamp set and I have stamped that in Evening Evergreen and used the Meadow dies to cut it out.
 

These were so much fun to make and I can see that I will be making lots of cards using the Quiet Meadow Bundle.

If you have any questions about my projects today, or would like to purchase the products to make them please do not hesitate to contact me. Also if you would like to have a copy of the new Annual Catalogue in your had just let me know.

I always look forward, each week, to seeing the amazing creativity of the Art With Heart Team and now is the time to head to the next person in the hop, the very talented Vicki Boucher.
  

If at any time you have a broken link just come back to this list and click on the next person in the list to continue the blog hop.

Kate Morgan

Sharon Davern   <=You Are Here

Vicki Boucher

Caroline Manwaring

Tina Gillespie

Christine Blain

Rachel Woollard

Theresa Gerrard

Rachel Palmeri

Michele Taylor

Diane Furniss

Andrea Sargent

Ros Davidson

Cathy Proctor

 

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today,

take care,

Week 47 - Colour Creations Showcase - "Smoky Slate"

 

Today is a very exciting day! Why? Well I am glad you asked! Today is not only Colour Creations Showcase day but it we have a NEW ANNUAL CATALOGUE! So that means we have so much new fun products that are available to share and to purchase and play with. You are going to love them all.

Well today we are looking at one of our Neutral Colours Smoky Slate and you can pair this with just about anything you want so let's get to it!

I have used the Tasteful Touches stamp set and the gorgeous In Good Taste DSP which we are so lucky it is carry over into this new Annual Catalogue. I just love this paper and stamp set so I was very happy that they did not retire. The In Good Taste DSP has Smoky Slate as one of its colours so I went straight for it for our colour challenge today.

Now you may wonder what the little pop of colour I have added to go with our Smoky Slate. Well, I am glad you asked! (Those of you who are old enough will know that is a reference to the Curiosity Show😂) It is 2 of the new 2021-23 In Colors. Fresh Freesia and Soft Succulent. 

I have added Fresh Freesia card to the base on top of the Smoky Slate and under the Tile DSP from In Good Taste and with the beautiful In Color Open Weave ribbons I have a little splash of that as well as the In Color Basic Jewels. The Rose from the Tasteful Touches stamp set I have firstly stamped in Smoky Slate and then added just a hint of the Fresh Freesia with both the Light and Dark Stampin' Blends

 

Now you can see under the rose that I have popped up on dimensionals I have stamped directly onto the In Good Taste DSP, I have stamped off onto scrap paper first the rose in Smoky Slate and then onto the DSP and I have also done the same with the leave from the stamp set in Soft Succulent. Then using the Forever Flourishing Dies I have cut out in Vellum and in the New In Color Shimmer Vellum in the Soft Succulent colour some leaves to go under the rose and sentiment.

The sentiment is stamped on Smoky Slate card in Smoky slate ink and I have used the Tasteful Labels Dies with my Cut & Emboss machine to cut out the label.

I think it is quite an elegant card and I only just had time to photograph it before my friend took it off my hands to give it to her Mum for Mother's day. So it can be used for a friendship card, A Mother's Day Card or a card to give to your daughter. I hope you will give this design a try as the DSP is just lovely and you can add any number of your favourite colours and that new shimmer vellum is so stunning! You will want it high on you wish list of new products!

Please head over to the lovely Cathy Proctor's Blog to see the always amazing inspiration from her and the list of the team participating this week so that you can go an visit them as well to their wonderful creations for this weeks colour of Smoky Slate

If you have any questions about my project today or would like to get your hands on the NEW ANNUAL CATALOGUE, can you see I am excited, 😂 please do not hesitate to contact me.

Thank you for spending some crafty time with me today, take care,